Community Housing DSS 2018-

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Data Set Specification

METeOR identifier:

710899

Registration status:

Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019

DSS type:

Data Set Specification (DSS)

Scope:

Community housing (CH) is rental housing provided for low to moderate income or special needs households, managed by community-based organisations that have received capital or recurrent subsidy from government. Community housing models vary across jurisdictions, and the housing stock may be owned by a variety of groups including government.

The CH data set specification includes:

tenancy (rental) units under management of a community housing organisation.

The CH data set specification excludes dwellings:

where the tenancy is managed under:

public housing (PH)

state owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH)

Indigenous community housing (ICH)

the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP).

no longer under the administration of the CHO at 30 June of the reference year (including dwellings demolished, sold or otherwise disposed of); and

not yet available to the CHO at 30 June of the reference year (including those still under construction or being purchased).

New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory supply unit record level data. These data include details on individuals, organisations, dwellings, and associated tenancies of the organisations that respond to the survey. Queensland supplement their unit record data with aggregate data. The Northern Territory supply aggregate data, which includes dwelling- and organisation-level data, but no information on individual tenancies or persons, that is, household data.

Collection and usage attributes

Data is collected via a survey of community housing providers and forwarded to state or territory housing authorities. Data is also sourced from administrative records held by state/territory housing authorities.

State and territory housing authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation on an annual basis.

Implementation start date:

01/07/2018

Comments:

Refer to the collection period of the data set to determine the reference year for this data set specification.

Record assessable weekly income for the week of 30 June. Assessable income includes income from all sources (excluding Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA)) as specified and used by the agency to establish eligibility of a household for receipt of housing assistance.

Record the amount of rent charged for the week of 30 June of the reference year.

Rent charged is the amount of money the household has been asked to pay. It may differ from market rent and may not have been received. Rent charged should exclude Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA), charges for utilities, meals, cleaning, laundry or other facility costs in the rent charged to tenant.

Rent charged is the total amount of money the community housing organisation's households have been asked to pay during the previous reference year (ending 30 June). It may differ from market rent and may not have been received. The amount of rent charged excludes charges for utilities, meals, cleaning, laundry or other facility costs in the rent charged to tenant.

Waitlist applicants/households are only in scope if the community housing organisation manages its own waitlist.

DSS specific information:

Record the total number of applicants/households as at 30 June of the reference year.

Record unknown values as ‘U’ and map to code 9999 (not stated/inadequately described).

Waitlist applicants are those households that have applied for rental housing and have been deemed eligible but have not received the assistance they applied for. This includes current housing tenants who are applicants for assistance different from what they currently receive.

Waitlist applicants/households are only in scope if the community housing organisation manages its own waitlist.

DSS specific information:

Record the total number of applicants/households as at 30 June of the reference year.

Record unknown values as ‘U’ and map to code 9999 (not stated/inadequately described).

Waitlist applicants are those households that have applied for rental housing and have been deemed eligible but have not received the assistance they applied for. This includes current housing tenants who are applicants for assistance different from what they currently receive.

Waitlist applicants/households are only in scope if the community housing organisation manages its own waitlist.

DSS specific information:

Record the total number of applicants/households as at 30 June of the reference year.

Record unknown values as ‘U’ and map to code 9999 (not stated/inadequately described).

Waitlist applicants are those households that have applied for rental housing and have been deemed eligible but have not received the assistance they applied for. This includes current housing tenants who are applicants for assistance different from what they currently receive.

Waitlist applicants/households are only in scope if the community housing organisation manages its own waitlist.

DSS specific information:

Record the total number of applicants/households as at 30 June of the reference year.

Record unknown values as ‘U’ and map to code 9999 (not stated/inadequately described).

Waitlist applicants are those households that have applied for rental housing and have been deemed eligible but have not received the assistance they applied for. This includes current housing tenants who are applicants for assistance different from what they currently receive.